How to Use binary in a Sentence

binary

1 of 2 noun
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  • Now, the star is ready to dismiss the boundaries of the gender binary.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The new Drive binary comes with flags for '--recover_from_account_backups' and '--recover_from_app_data_path', which tells us a bit about what is going on.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2023
  • And like, there's certainly a binary that's set from the get-go...
    — Téa Francesca Price, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 July 2021
  • Yet the story in Taiwan shows this binary to be a false one.
    — Dan Xin Huang, The New Republic, 24 May 2021
  • The thrill of victory and agony of defeat is a false binary.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • For too long, these two have been treated as a false binary.
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Maybe the human brain is wired to think in terms of binaries: male or female, on or off, win or lose.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
  • Everything relates to the binary of Trump is good and non-Trump is bad.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
  • But this stark binary doesn’t in any way represent the range of options on the table for the planet.
    — Sam Gill, Fortune, 10 June 2022
  • This all stems from the gender binary, and in this pocket-sized book, Vaid-Menon breaks down why gender isn’t black or white.
    — Brea Baker, ELLE, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But what makes James Webb’s image of this wind binary so amazing?
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Reed is known for designs that don't conform to any sort of gender binary.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The tool, deployed in the %TEMP%\d folder as mt.exe and mtt.exe, failed to execute because of a bug that occurred when the binary was renamed.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Part of the problem is that the enduring mask wars have helped frame mask wearing as a simple binary.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2021
  • In this sense, the design flaw is that retirement is too rigid of a binary—you’re either working a lot or not at all.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Presenting these two goals as a binary misses the point.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 23 June 2021
  • All of the eight new black hole binary systems emitting echoes ranged from five to 15 solar masses, and all of the companion stars were about the size of our Sun.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 May 2022
  • None of them were able to understand its contents, and only one figured out that the binary was meant to be a bitmap.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Yet 40 of the planetary-mass objects seen in the images—nearly 10 percent of them—are in binaries.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Other theater honors have, like the Spirit Awards, already chucked out the binary, in at least one case long ago.
    — Vulture, 2 May 2023
  • But panic is not entirely absent on the other side of the binary.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
  • There was no reason to assume that we were allowed to exist that way because the country very much speaks in a binary of Black [and] white.
    — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Race, for many, is a determining brand, simply one side of a rigid binary.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
  • But White House officials are keen on framing things as a binary -- and more populist -- choice.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
  • This time around, Packer dispenses with the red-blue binary.
    — Martin Kuz, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2021
  • In the spot, Hamasaki implies that Botox, like makeup and wigs, is a tool for escaping the gender binary, not policing it.
    — New York Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Did the TikTok youths abolish the gender binary already?
    — Josh Rivera, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022
  • Until now, that complex debate has largely boiled down to a simple binary: Roe vs. Wade, for it or against it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • And a few, including Hampton and Rusty Brown, seemed to express a desire to live beyond the gender binary.
    — Elaina Patton, NBC News, 9 June 2023
  • Earendel may have been the prominent star in a two-star, or binary, system, or even a triple- or quadruple-star system, Welch said.
    — Marcia Dunn, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2022
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binary

2 of 2 adjective
  • Of course, offsets and SAF don't have to be a binary choice.
    — Paul Sillers, CNN, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Like, there’s kind of a tree of points, a binary tree of points that sits inside of your set.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Clark has spoken in the past about how one of her children is non-binary.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • And, more to the point, who needs binary divisions of gender?
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The brute force of binary code is minimized, and so is the power consumption and the heat.
    — Charles Platt, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The other thing that gives me hope is that folks are starting to think beyond a binary choice.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 30 Sep. 2022
  • His choice in turn means there is only a binary choice for the West: Give Ukraine the weapons to win, or abandon Ukraine and live with the fallout for decades.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The same is true for many of the issues that divide the two countries – they are framed as binary win-lose scenarios.
    — Michael Beckley, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2023
  • One of them is June Wagner, a 17-year-old high school junior who is trans and non-binary.
    — Olivia Krauth, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But the world, as seen from India, is too complex for such binary options.
    — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • There’s got to be something deeper than the binary, the binary box.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The development of such systems can’t be binary, like the AI in the diabetes study.
    — Fay Cobb Payton, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2023
  • This troubled me: whether or not a person adhered to her treatment was reduced to a binary yes or no.
    — Fay Cobb Payton, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2023
  • If that optimism was binary 0, since then the mood has switched to binary 1.
    — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • These countries’ styles of fighting show that conflict is rarely a binary—either war or peace.
    — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The same is true with gay brothers, lesbian sisters, non-binary and trans people.
    — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
  • Their verdicts—binary votes on who had won each head-to-head battle—flashed on a pair of elevated flat-screens.
    — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • The asteroid pair—what astronomers call a binary asteroid—was about 7 million miles from Earth at the time of impact and isn’t a threat to our planet.
    — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Janelle Monáe is grateful for the positive response since coming out as non-binary last year.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2023
  • In an interview, Peaches puts it out there that O’Connor may have been a non-binary pioneer.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2022
  • This led me to found Kode With Klossy in 2015, which runs free summer camp sessions that teach young women and non-binary youth the fundamentals of coding.
    — Karlie Kloss, CNN, 8 Sep. 2022
  • For Sam, who is 30 years old and non-binary, opening up their relationship did bring it to a very necessary end.
    — Quinn Rhodes, refinery29.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Support and acceptance of a non-binary child will help accomplish all those goals.
    — Carole Allen, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
  • And the images are truly spectacular, showing a series of up to 17 rings that extend roughly a light year from the binary stars.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Bridges says that the phrase is used to recognize that some transgender men and non-binary people can become pregnant.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
  • These relatable scenarios run the gamut of issues, from the binary setup of locker rooms which force a kid to choose a gender, all the way through the social climate of sports teams.
    — Taylor Grothe, Parents, 6 June 2023
  • Public transformation is perhaps something of a theme for Smith; in 2019, the singer publicly came out as non-binary.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Sam Smith is reflecting on their journey since coming out as non-binary in 2019.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The company also launched the Belle Block industry group last June with the goal of bringing more women and non-binary people into Web3.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Instead, the binary asteroid looks like a single object from here, with most of the light reflecting off the far larger Didymos.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023

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